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That concern is nationwide but i'm not going to say the railroads are unsafe. they are safe if you look at them statistically. you go to a microcosm of area by area and you will find areas where it can be frightening. they don't have the proper manpower to do the inspections, when they do the maintenance they may not be doing the expensive version, they may be doing the quick fix version. i have no idea if that came into play here. >> sandra: a quick update as far as what we know at this point, this is all happening near tacoma, washington. what we know so far, multiple injuries and fatalities...

Survivable, unfortunately." as you look at the picture on the screen right there, you can see how badly crushed to the car is that came down flat onto i-5. the sheriff's spokesman saying there are 3-4 more completely off the track on the other side. we don't know how many cars are left up on the tracks, we can't see from the vantage point we have so far had it. clearly you've got one dangling, one on the side of the overpass, completely flat. 3-4 on the other side. a total of 17 passengers were aboard as we understand. impossible to tell at this stage how many were in those affected cars. when...

Talking about. eight people died. 185 others transported to area hospitals. as we go back and forth learning how this whole thing is played out, i'm going to bring everybody up to speed. in the middle of your screen is now a still picture, interstate five has been shut down, at last check in both directions but certainly southbound. this is around the collision point of the train falling onto the overpass. it is south of seattle in the tacoma area, south of there we are told. this line would've been carrying about 70 people at the time. one car flattened from eyewitness reports and officials o...

Los angeles, what can you tell us? >> what we are hearing from the sheriff's spokesman is very disturbing indeed. multiple fatalities, the sheriff's office now confirm and as you look at the picture on the left of the screen, you can see one car dangling off the track. we can tell you that underneath that car, flat across i-5 is another car that is in very bad shape. with the sheriff's spokesman told us is even more disturbing, on the other side of that i-5 overpass, he said "there are 3-4 other cars completely derailed." one of the quotes the sheriff's spokesman gave to local media was very d...

Slider or anything like that. the fog -- we are in seattle. >> harris: i was thinking the same thing. >> i was preparing to go on i-5 down to vancouver. >> harris: we are coming up on 10 minutes for the next hour, we want to remind everybody watching on their screen. and also welcome people turning on "outnumbered" for the first time and seeing first responders and an emergency response. this was train 501 along amtrak cascade line. that train derailed off onto